change command promt color ?

[jamaican1231]

Does any body know the function that changes the color of the command prompt. I know there is one but i dont remember it and i am not finding i ton google.

[Memloop]

It depends on the OS. There are no such functions in standard C.

[quzah]

Assuming your shell supports them, ANSI escape code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


Quzah.

[MK27]

Here's an examples of using ANSI with bash

#bash prompt
RED="\[\033[1;31m\]"
GREEN="\[\033[0;32m\]"
ORANGE="\[\033[0;33m\]"
BLUE="\[\033[0;34m\]"
MAUVE="\[\033[1;35m\]"
CYAN="\[\033[1;36m\]"
GRAY="\[\033[0;37m\]"
hmm="\[\033[0;30m\]"
hmm2="\[\033[0;40m\]"
WHITE="\[\033[00m\]"
PS1="$MAUVE[$RED\u$CYAN\w$MAUVE] $WHITE"

export PS1

The last one sets the color back to white